GB-Cu Add. 4435 (Part of Royal Choirbook)

University Library, Cambridge, England

choirbook fragment: 15th century: c 1400

Archive University Library, Cambridge, England (GB-Cu)
Shelfmark Add. 4435 (Part of Royal Choirbook)
Surface Parchment
Numbering System Foliation
Measurements a: 120 x 108; b: 142 x 136; c: 178 x 63; d: 268 x 40 mm
Other Identifiers
  • RISM: GB-Cu 4435
  • CCM: CambriU 4435
Notations
  • black full mensural
  • red mensural
Provenance
  • England
Contents Contains 3 compositions, 3 are anonymous.
General Description

Recovered from book bindings. Once part of same original manuscript as CambriU 5963, CanberN 4052/2/1, OxfBDON b.31-2, ff. 27a-28 of OxfBU 192, and ff. 89-92 of OxfM 267. Copied by a single scribe. Of English origin; possibly copied for chapel of King Henry VI (BentP).

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Notation

black/red mensural

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Ruling

red staves

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Foliation

16a, b, c, d recto + verso

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Foliation

No original foliation remains; modern foliation, 12a-12d ('12' amended to '16' by later inscription on first folio).

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Decoration

Black inked Gothic initials with floral tracery.

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Surface

Parchment

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RISM Description

RISM B/IV 2: Four parchment fragments meas. respectively 120 x 108, 142 x 136, 178 x 63 and 268 x 40 mm. Except for strip d, all the fragments seem to be top left-hand corners with ornamented black initials from a motet manuscript in Ars Nova notation with red coloration dating from c. 1400. The incipits given are those which are clearly the beginning of a polyphonic voice. Fol. a has 3 five-line staves, f. b has 4 and f. c a few notes on 5.5 staves. Fol. b verso refers to Edwardus, and so may be connected with the Confessor in item 3. The recto of strip d ends with the words "Jhesu dulcis", while the verso contains a T.

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6 motets (all fragmentary)

Anonymous

4 fragmentary parchment folios, 120 x 108, 142 x 136, 176 x 63, and 268 x 40, respectively, recovered from book bindings. Once part of same original manuscript as CambriU 5963, CanberN 4052/2/1, OxfBDON b.31-2, ff. 27a-28 of OxfBU 192, and ff. 89-92 of OxfM 267. No original foliation remains; modern foliation, 12a-12d ("12" amended to "16" by later inscription on first folio). Black mensural notation on red staves, with red coloration. Copied by a single scribe. Black inked Gothic initials with floral tracery.

Ca. 1420-30 (BentL). Of English origin; possibly copied for chapel of King Henry VI (BentP). [see also CambriU 5963, CanberN 4052/2/1, OxfBDON b.31-2, OxfBU 192, OxfM 267]

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c verso

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
a Caeli cives curie - Anonymous

Caeli cives curie

Anonymous
Appears on: a
Genres: Motet
Number of voices: 1
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c3
Voice Text: Celi cives curie
Layout

parts
b verso fons, origo musicorum, laus - Anonymous

fons, origo musicorum, laus

Anonymous
Appears on: b verso
Genres: Motet
Number of voices: 1
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c3
Voice Text: fons, origo musicorum, laus
Layout

parts
c Iste confessor... speculum pi- - Anonymous

Iste confessor... speculum pi-

Anonymous
Appears on: c
Genres: Motet
Number of voices: 3
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c3
Voice Text: Iste confessor... speculum pi-
Layout

parts
Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
Caeli cives curie Anonymous a
fons, origo musicorum, laus Anonymous b verso
Iste confessor... speculum pi- Anonymous c

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Set: Royal Choirbook

Type: Fragments of a whole

AUS-CAnl MS 4052/2/1 (Part of Royal Choirbook)

GB-Cu Add. 4435 (Part of Royal Choirbook)

GB-Cu Add. 5963(8) (Part of Royal Choirbook)

GB-Lv Circ. 526-1923 (Part of Royal Choirbook)

GB-Ob MS. Don. b. 31 (Part of Royal Choirbook)

GB-Ob MS. Don. b. 32 (Part of Royal Choirbook)

GB-Omc MS Lat. 267 (Part of Royal Choirbook)

GB-Ouc University College MS. 192 (Some leaves part of Royal Choirbook)

‡ denotes primary source study

Curtis, Gareth R K, and Andrew B Wathey. 1994. Fifteenth-Century English Liturgical Music: A List of the Surviving Repertory. Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle, 27: 1-69.

Bent, Margaret. 1984. The Progeny of Old Hall: More Leaves from a Royal English Choirbook. Gordon Athol Anderson (1929-1981) in Memoriam, Musicological Studies, vol. 49. 2 vols.1-54. Henryville, Ottawa, and Binningen: Institute of Mediaeval Music.

Hamm, Charles E, and Herbert Kellman (editors). 1979-1988. Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550. Renaissance Manuscript Studies, vol. 1. 5 vols. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology, Hänssler Verlag.

Bent, Margaret. 1972. A Lost English Choirbook of the Fifteenth Century. International Musicological Society: Report of the Eleventh Congress, 257-62.

Bent, Margaret. 1968. New and Little-Known Fragments of English Medieval Polyphony. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 21: 137-56.

Hughes, Andrew. 1963. English Sacred Music (Excluding Carols) in Insular Sources, 1400-C.1450. Oxford University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I, 65, 142; II, 31-2; III, 263-6.

Bukofzer, Manfred F. 1958. Changing Aspects of Medieval and Renaissance Music. The Musical Quarterly, 44: 1-18. Pages: 6.

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Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550

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NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. Census Catalogue of Music Description

Répertoire Internationale des Sources Musicales

Monday, 23 January, 2017

NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. RISM Description